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After an abortive attempt to install an evaluation linux os on a second
physical hard drive, I have a (semi) corrupted partition table on that
drive.
Originally it had a FAT32 (backup, bootable) XP installation, an NTFS Data
Drive (accessible from my master XP installation) and an 8Gb free space for
the new OS.
Now I can still boot into the FAT32 XP install. I can boot my normal C:
drive XP and both versions of XP can see the NTFS data drive correctly.
Now the problem: my partitioning software (Powerquest Partition Magic 8.0)
now refuses to have anything to do with the drive and just marks the whole
thing as "BAD". Partition Info gives the following diagnostic showing that
there is now an ExtendedX partition "enclosing" the FAT32 and NTFS logical
drives:
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Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 14946 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 0 00 0 1 1 0F 1023 254 63
63 240,107,427
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are: 0 0 00 0 1 1 0F 14945 254 63
63 240,107,427
NO NAME 63 0 00 0 2 1 0B 318 254 63
126 5,124,609
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 2.
63 1 80 319 0 1 07 1023 254 63
5,124,735 218,467,935
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are: 63 1 80 319 0 1 07 13917 254 63
5,124,735 218,467,935
63 2 00 1023 0 1 05 1023 254 63
223,592,670 1,012,095
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are: 63 2 00 13918 0 1 05 13980 254 63
223,592,670 1,012,095
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Partition Information for Disk 2: 117,240.0 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
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===============================
ExtendedX Pri 117,240.0 0 0 63
240,107,427
EPBR Log 2,502.3 None -- 63
5,124,672
G:NO NAME FAT32 Log 2,502.3 63 0 126
5,124,609
D: NTFS Log,Boot 106,673.8 63 1 5,124,735
218,467,935
Warning #113: Logical starting at 5124735 overlaps enclosing extended
volume.
Error #114: Logical starting at 5124735 is not one head away from EPBR.
EPBR Log 494.2 63 2 223,592,670
1,012,095
Warning: EPBR partition starting at 223592670 is without logical partition.
Unallocated Log 8,063.9 None -- 223,592,670
16,514,820
So the question is, how can I restore the partition information to keep the
NTFS data drive intact back to something that I can manipulate in my
partitioning software? I've experimented with direct editing of the current
partition info (PTEDIT) with no success.
My thought was that I should have the first partition as the FAT32 drive,
then an extended partition with the NTFS then an extended partition with the
free space - but I can't seem to get the ordering right and have to restore
back to this (semi) corrupt state for windows to work.
Any ideas?
Regards
Richard
After an abortive attempt to install an evaluation linux os on a second
physical hard drive, I have a (semi) corrupted partition table on that
drive.
Originally it had a FAT32 (backup, bootable) XP installation, an NTFS Data
Drive (accessible from my master XP installation) and an 8Gb free space for
the new OS.
Now I can still boot into the FAT32 XP install. I can boot my normal C:
drive XP and both versions of XP can see the NTFS data drive correctly.
Now the problem: my partitioning software (Powerquest Partition Magic 8.0)
now refuses to have anything to do with the drive and just marks the whole
thing as "BAD". Partition Info gives the following diagnostic showing that
there is now an ExtendedX partition "enclosing" the FAT32 and NTFS logical
drives:
============================================================================
===============================
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 2: 14946 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head Sect
StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 0 00 0 1 1 0F 1023 254 63
63 240,107,427
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are: 0 0 00 0 1 1 0F 14945 254 63
63 240,107,427
NO NAME 63 0 00 0 2 1 0B 318 254 63
126 5,124,609
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 2.
63 1 80 319 0 1 07 1023 254 63
5,124,735 218,467,935
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are: 63 1 80 319 0 1 07 13917 254 63
5,124,735 218,467,935
63 2 00 1023 0 1 05 1023 254 63
223,592,670 1,012,095
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are: 63 2 00 13918 0 1 05 13980 254 63
223,592,670 1,012,095
============================================================================
===============================
Partition Information for Disk 2: 117,240.0 Megabytes
Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects
============================================================================
===============================
ExtendedX Pri 117,240.0 0 0 63
240,107,427
EPBR Log 2,502.3 None -- 63
5,124,672
G:NO NAME FAT32 Log 2,502.3 63 0 126
5,124,609
D: NTFS Log,Boot 106,673.8 63 1 5,124,735
218,467,935
Warning #113: Logical starting at 5124735 overlaps enclosing extended
volume.
Error #114: Logical starting at 5124735 is not one head away from EPBR.
EPBR Log 494.2 63 2 223,592,670
1,012,095
Warning: EPBR partition starting at 223592670 is without logical partition.
Unallocated Log 8,063.9 None -- 223,592,670
16,514,820
So the question is, how can I restore the partition information to keep the
NTFS data drive intact back to something that I can manipulate in my
partitioning software? I've experimented with direct editing of the current
partition info (PTEDIT) with no success.
My thought was that I should have the first partition as the FAT32 drive,
then an extended partition with the NTFS then an extended partition with the
free space - but I can't seem to get the ordering right and have to restore
back to this (semi) corrupt state for windows to work.
Any ideas?
Regards
Richard